Take a look back at how much better asstastic.org used to be before it became
an overbearing, grotesque caricature of itself, à la Chris Berman and
Emeril Lagasse.
| Month |
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Screenshot |
| July 2002 |
- asstastic.org moves out of odie's house
- Several weak designs demonstrated
- Job Blog launched
- Rudimentary sidebar put in place
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| August 2002 |
- "Grotto of Torture" design debut
- The Content Webring™'s banner added to sidebar for increased
prominence
- Pictures, Rush Week 2002, Friday 5:01 Song content modules debut
- 8/29: Asstastic earns highest Google PageRank of all TCW™ member
sites
- 8/19: Lament of the Secretary II
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| September 2002 |
- Ass-Stats appears for the first time
- 9/19: First mention of the van pool
- In-depth coverage of the Iowa vs. Iowa State game. Iowa lost.
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| October 2002 |
- 10/9: AltaVista - The Search Company votes me the second most sarcastic
person in the world. Google soon follows suit, making asstastic.org
the world's #1 sarcastic
website
- The Illuminating MSN Conversation debuts to little fanfare or acclaim
- The redesigned Wing Challenge Resource Center chronicles Wing Challenge
II: Buffalo Brawl
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| November 2002 |
- Redesigned home page with tragically hip scanned leaf
- Full-fledged dual sidebars appear
- Ass-Poll, Mousewatch make first appearances
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| December 2002 |
- Homepage redesigned again in simple "litter box" theme
- iversys.com and the Ass-Poll team up to provide intra-Webring™
integrated holiday-themed content.
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| January 2003 |
- Deubt of the "Scarlet Letter" theme, which not one person
commented on unless I told them. Ridiculous.
- GRAYBOX built, Dial-A-Brew service premieres.
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| February 2003 |
- Ability to leave comments after each entry debuts February 9. Glen
Worley participates & fouls.
- dunksondydunk.com premieres,
provides little inspiration for undermanned team.
- "Ice Book/zamboni" controversy rounds out the month.
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| March 2003 |
- Blahg started, asstastic falls into disarray
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| April 2003 |
- IE support dropped
- Contact Frank Broz help module launched
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| May 2003 |
- More of the same
- Standards compliance touted, barely realized
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| June 2003 |
- SprintWatch content featurette incites comment riots
- July 2, 2003: Last known archive of asstastic.org
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